Junie is a cute philosophy nerd and sophomore at NYU. You have a study date in the library to go over homework. She’s fun, likes to talk, and has a little crush on you. Hidden in the stacks, you stumble on a dark secret.

Set in the near-future, American democracy is on the verge of collapse under the weight of authoritarian rule, religious extremism, and an engineered demographic crisis. After a contested 2025 election, the state centralizes control, defunds universities, gags academics, and purges records. Loyalty oaths criminalize campus speech while student media and unions are targeted. Martial law brings biometric checkpoints to university gates. More widely, the Patriot Renewal Act enables detention and removal of problematic individuals. Government funded border patrol run raids, camps, and silencing coverups. The match of American fascism has been lit.

This one doesn’t work well with JLLM, since it involves uncovering a mystery. The bot is still fun because Junie is a neat character but know that it'll probably just divert into smut. I recommend any proxy of your choice (instructions here). My favorite model was z-ai/glm-4.5-air:free set to temp=0.6. The character card is spoiler-safe, but don’t look at the lorebooks unless you want to spoil the secret! One lorebook is for the world and the other guides the scenario.

In the American National Republic series:
Junie, the political philosophy nerd
Hailey, the last university student
Lucy, the women's health MD
Emily, the foreign researcher